Tag: Catastrophes

April 26, 2024

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes

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Free Download Michaela Antonín Malaníková, "Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes"
English | ISBN: 1032347376 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns.

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April 25, 2024

Cosmic Catastrophes

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Free Download Cosmic Catastrophes by Clark R. Chapman , David Morrison
English | PDF | 1989 | 281 Pages | ISBN : 0306431637 | 23.2 MB
With the discovery of pulsars, quasars, and galactic X-ray sources in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and the coincident expansion in the search for gravitational waves, rela- tivistic gravity assumed an important place in the astrophysics of localized objects. Only by pushing Einstein’s solar-system-tested general theory of relativity to the study of the extremes of gravitational collapse and its outcomes did it seem that one could explain these frontier astronomical phenomena. This conclusion continues to be true today.

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January 8, 2024

Surviving Our Catastrophes Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Free Download Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Robert Jay Lifton
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1620978156 | 122 pages | PDF | 2.05 Mb
From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of "survivor power" to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic-and collectively heal

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